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I posted about it in this very thread two years ago when my cat died, but I was destroyed when it happened. A coworker heartlessly told me, "I haaate cats. Absolutely haaate them. I'm a dog person." after she asked what was wrong. Like... people like that don't even deserve to have children, let alone pets. How the gently caress do you say something like that to a grieving person? EDIT: of course it's a new page. Re: losing a pet chat from the last page.
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When the signal says you can cross on the bottom left/right crossing, it is equally safe to go on the top left/right crossing. Just check for left turns. Or right turns in Australia I guess.
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There's a local radio show host who is pretty much a sociopath and makes no bones about how he wants to see the world end. But whenever one of his dogs die, the dude takes 1-2 days off work, and many times when he comes back, he's ranting and raving about people wanting a higher minimum wage when they can't even make a cheeseburger right and people get paid what they deserve and...the dude is a rich white man who can take DAYS off when a pet dies, who brags about how much he spends on remodeling his house and how many TVs he puts in the bars there, but he has no loving empathy save for his own animals, and sometimes one or two charities that work with cops or the Humane Society. He has no idea that some people get loving fired for taking their sick kid to the doctor or trying to cope with the loss of a child or spouse or parent, and he doesn't care because the dude is rich and if not for his ability to impersonate celebs, he'd be a loving nobody who'd get fired for not showing up to work because one of his dogs died. Cowslips Warren has a new favorite as of 15:48 on Sep 9, 2018 |
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Sep 9, 2018 15:26
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Warren, your mom sounds like she drives you completely loving bonkers. Is there any way out of that?
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Sep 9, 2018 15:48
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Leavemywife posted:Warren, your mom sounds like she drives you completely loving bonkers. Is there any way out of that? I edited out the comment but she does drive me crazy, but at this point with her age I'm starting to worry if maybe she doesn't need a hearing aid. at first I was seriously worried about dementia because both of her parents had Alzheimer's really really bad in their last few years, until I remember that she's adopted so then that makes it a little worse because neither of us have any idea what to expect as she gets older.
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Sep 9, 2018 15:50
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I just see a lot of posts from you, usually about that, and I'm just wondering if something can't be done. Would she be receptive to a hearing aid? If I'm overstepping boundaries here, just tell me.
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Sep 9, 2018 16:01
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No no, it's something I need to talk about with her. Peeve outside my mom: during a meeting, people who can't keep their tiny whisper chatter to a minimum, especially when we have a guest speaker. Assholes, someone else has the floor right now, everybody sit down like you've been asked to multiple times, and be quiet. this does not mean, that you look over at the person asking for quiet, then turn back to the person you're talking to and keep whispering! What are you, four?
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Sep 9, 2018 16:30
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Cowslips Warren posted:No no, it's something I need to talk about with her. People do this all the time at talks and it drives me crazy. When my old boss did it during my talks I'd stop and stare (leading the rest of the room to turn around and look) until they were done like I was a teacher trying to make a 3rd grader feel embarrassed, because that's what they are acting like. At least pretend to pay attention.
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Re: intersections I've always wondered why the pedestrian crossing are placed right at the intersection instead of 20 meters or so back away from it. It makes it so you have to dodge traffic coming from four directions at once instead of just one.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:I've always wondered why the pedestrian crossing are placed right at the intersection instead of 20 meters or so back away from it. It makes it so you have to dodge traffic coming from four directions at once instead of just one.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Re: intersections Turning traffic won't stop for you then, and you won't be able to see them coming. Peeve: people who don't signal. There's any number of intersections here where one can expect 95%+ of the people to be turning, but I have to stop and wait for a break instead of turning right coming out of them since they don't signal or even slow down until they get there. pre:---------------------------------
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rchandra posted:Turning traffic won't stop for you then, and you won't be able to see them coming. That's already the case, though. People turning are completely oblivious to the walk/don't walk lights. Moving the crossings back a bit would at least give me a couple of more seconds to react.
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You expect traffic to stop 20 yards back from the intersection and then stop again once they reach the intersection? Or are you suggesting that if a light is red people will just stop 20 yards further away? Your idea might *maybe* solve your peeve but would also extremely gently caress up traffic in general.
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It wouldn't change anything about traffic since nobody stops for pedestrians, but it would give pedestrians more time to look for an opening. The way it is now I can't cross the street if any cars are coming from any of the four directions because nobody slows down, uses signals, or has any regard for the lights.
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Sep 9, 2018 23:42
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yeah I eat rear end posted:People do this all the time at talks and it drives me crazy. When my old boss did it during my talks I'd stop and stare (leading the rest of the room to turn around and look) until they were done like I was a teacher trying to make a 3rd grader feel embarrassed, because that's what they are acting like. At least pretend to pay attention. No poo poo! When we have a video on and I might be bored but I can sit quietly and look at my phone. gently caress, even trying to get the raffle started led to me having to yell at people to sit and shut up. One idiot kept wandering around the other tables until I told him to sit down and we wouldn't start until he had.
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A thread classic: some inconsiderate buffoon parking their giant cart right in front of an aisle, standing next to it, and spending 10 minutes deciding between two brands of ketchup while blocking off like six feet of aisle shelving and losing track of their kids. Or worse, they'll stop their cart parallel to another stopped cart or to a stocker's dolly, totally blocking passage. How loving blind are you?
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A trend I've noticed recently is that a lot of people pull their shopping carts from the front-left corner instead of standing behind it and pushing like a normal person. Since they're off to the side they basically block the entire aisle.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:It wouldn't change anything about traffic since nobody stops for pedestrians, but it would give pedestrians more time to look for an opening. The way it is now I can't cross the street if any cars are coming from any of the four directions because nobody slows down, uses signals, or has any regard for the lights. Ok now I'm really confused. You're talking about a 4 way intersection where nobody is required to stop?
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:It wouldn't change anything about traffic since nobody stops for pedestrians, but it would give pedestrians more time to look for an opening. The way it is now I can't cross the street if any cars are coming from any of the four directions because nobody slows down, uses signals, or has any regard for the lights. In MN, you must stop for pedestrians, if they put a foot in the crosswalk. It's an implied stop sign. I've never had a problem crossing the road, even when jaywalking. Just put your hand up, make sure the person sees you, and cross the road as quick as you can. To be fair, this is the Twin Cities, not Chicago or New York. Maybe it's more difficult there. Here, I've never had any trouble crossing in a weird place when I have to. Just be quick about it and everyone is fine. People do it in front of me all the time and it's not hard to just slow up slightly and then keep going. Now, the thing people do with the walk sign making them invincible does give me the red rear end. Don't saunter slowly across the road taking the entire light to make a crossing. It's not hard to jog. People have places to be.
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Inspector 34 posted:Ok now I'm really confused. You're talking about a 4 way intersection where nobody is required to stop? It's a regular intersection with crosswalks and traffic lights but nobody stops for poo poo. If you use the crosswalk you have no time to react when somebody decides to drive through a red light and make a left turn straight into you without signaling. Moving the crosswalks back away from the intersection would be way safer.
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mostlygray posted:In MN, you must stop for pedestrians, if they put a foot in the crosswalk. It's an implied stop sign. I've never had a problem crossing the road, even when jaywalking. Just put your hand up, make sure the person sees you, and cross the road as quick as you can. I'm in California and that is the law as well but nobody stops. It's usually uber drivers that aren't even looking at the road.
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Sounds like what you actually need are for traffic laws to be enforced.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A thread classic: some inconsiderate buffoon parking their giant cart right in front of an aisle, standing next to it, and spending 10 minutes deciding between two brands of ketchup while blocking off like six feet of aisle shelving and losing track of their kids. I work in a supermarket and I can confirm that people leave their brains at home when they go shopping and have zero awareness of what's going on around them Speaking of supermarket peeves: when I'm quite clearly doing second reductions on products that have to go that day, and people just come up and take the ones I haven't put the new stickers on yet. It's no skin off my nose, but if you'd just waited a few seconds, you could have had that for half price instead of only 25% 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A thread classic: some inconsiderate buffoon parking their giant cart right in front of an aisle, standing next to it, and spending 10 minutes deciding between two brands of ketchup while blocking off like six feet of aisle shelving and losing track of their kids. At my local Woolies the other day they had a little demo stand set up for a product they were promoting. Except they put it right in front of a section of the cheese display. Right in front of the particular cheese I wanted (Jarlsberg if anyone's interested, though it adds nothing to the story). A woman and her 3 kids were trying the product and had shopping bags and schoolbags spread out all over the floor blocking any access to that cheese and some others too. I hovered for about 30 seconds until deciding 'gently caress this' and asked them to move. To be fair it wasn't really their fault and they were really polite about it, it was whoever decided to set up the stand in such a stupid place. I had to lean in at a really awkward angle to reach the piece of cheese I wanted too. People drive me nuts in supermarkets. They lose all awareness of space and time. Helith has a new favorite as of 13:47 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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When they handout free samples in supermarkets but can't tell you details about the product. Seriously, if you can't answer "Does this contain X?" with a yes, no, or easy way to check, you are not doing your job!
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"Hey can I get X?" "Sorry, don't have time/have to get permission to send out that kind of documentation, I'll check it out. You'll hear from me." 'You'll hear from me.' No I loving won't, every single time people say that it's just a 'don't bother me', and they'll just forget or not do it, and then I have to follow up. Not to mention that means the project I'm working on gets delayed because it's missing important poo poo. Ughhhhhhh Related to this is the wonderful: Hey! Could you do this project? It has to be done asap, but we haven't gotten any of the files required because we just remembered this right now. Also we've known that it had to be done for months, and instead of asking you to do this during the extremely calm month of august, we're asking you the moment other work is ramping up.
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SubNat posted:"Hey can I get X?" I had to get something custom ordered, with lots of questions about price/options/sizing as that entails, and every time I asked something the chap I was talking to said “I’ll get back to you this afternoon” or “I’ll get back to you today”. Then I would wait a couple of days, so we were entirely out of the possible “today” for any time zone, and email again, politely. By the end, with c.30 emails exchanged, he was getting shirty, but still saying “this afternoon” and not delivering. Just...don’t say you’ll do something and not. The first couple of times are forgivable, but I’m willing to wait so long as you don’t say “this will be done by X time and I’ll tell you” when you know it won’t be.
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Thin Privilege posted:Kind of on topic, my new boss was fine about it when I unexpectedly had to take a day off work due to my cat, but punished 2 different women for doing the same but for their kids Unless it is unfiltered favoritism, my guess is they always ask about such favors. While your circumstance comes up more rarely, so they don't expect you to do that all the time. Also. Pet peeve. People who use the word narcissist/sociopath=bad person. Stop it. You are just lowering the bar for public understanding of psychology. It's obnoxious, arrogant and annoying. Say what you mean instead of trying to inflate your opinion with armchair psychology. Midig has a new favorite as of 01:28 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Midig posted:Unless it is unfiltered favoritism, my guess is they always ask about such favors. While your circumstance comes up more rarely, so they don't expect you to do that all the time. Look at this narcissistic sociopath over here. Seriously though, it’s those two and the term “abuse” which I get is kind of a joke around these parts (sometimes) but still. There are other words for people and things that are bad or hurtful. In many cases, more accurate ones.
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It's especially true for the word Psychopath - which means someone who's brain doesn't physically work properly and therefore cannot chemically make itself empathise with others - it's a physiological mental illness, like Schizophrenia, one that needs management, and a lot of them do manage it. The main problem is that people don't consider that they can understand even if they can't empathise, it just means they have to learn it. Often that results in someone much more in tune with other people than someone with empathy, because with empathy comes the varying -isms (ie Racism and Sexism) that Psychopaths don't tend to be affected by. It's not easy to understand, but if you put in the effort the understanding will come. Which makes society's reaction to psychopaths in and of itself psychopathic (because someone who can empathise finds it very difficult to turn it off unless you go full sociopath, and even then the prior biases will still be intact).
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Midig posted:Unless it is unfiltered favoritism, my guess is they always ask about such favors. While your circumstance comes up more rarely, so they don't expect you to do that all the time. This was a manager who was completely new and within a month said no to kid babysitter issue, yes to cat, no to pregnant lady for pregnancy sickness. Same job but totally different: rumors at work. I have been sniffling like crazy due to allergies and apparently someone started a rumor that I do coke apparently. Uh sorry my body sucks but I don’t do drugs. Everyone looks at me weird anyways though.
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BioEnchanted posted:Psychopath - which means someone who's brain doesn't physically work properly and therefore cannot chemically make itself empathise with others
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When someone posts something obviously fake on Facebook and you post a Snopes link or something else disproving it and they’re like “I don’t agree with it, I just thought it was interesting.”
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ghost emoji posted:When someone posts something obviously fake on Facebook and you post a Snopes link or something else disproving it and they’re like “I don’t agree with it, I just thought it was interesting.” Just say you think it's interesting that they gently caress kids.
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ghost emoji posted:When someone posts something obviously fake on Facebook and you post a Snopes link or something else disproving it and they’re like “I don’t agree with it, I just thought it was interesting.” Personally, I love to amplify viewpoints I'm morally opposed to.
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At least they don't go off on a "(((snopes)))" globalist lieberal conspiracy rant like people on my facebook. It's dumb to do the "ok its fake but it makes u think" angle, but it's another level to double down and deny facts that are right in front of your face.
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Psychopathy is a personality disorder and nothing like schizophrenia.
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ghost emoji posted:When someone posts something obviously fake on Facebook and you post a Snopes link or something else disproving it and they’re like “I don’t agree with it, I just thought it was interesting.” "Yeah but it could have been true!" is what I see most often after debunking someone's stupid post.
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The last time I snopesed my mom somebody butted in with that XKCD comic but I'm too tired to tell if it's being serious or making an ironic joke.
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ghost emoji posted:When someone posts something obviously fake on Facebook and you post a Snopes link or something else disproving it and they’re like “I don’t agree with it, I just thought it was interesting.” My Facebook feed has become the 2018 equivalent of the 1990s chain emails.
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